Legal Tech Funding
Legatics Scoops £0.5m Funding, ex-A&O Partner Joins Board
Legatics, the automated deal management platform, has secured more than £500,000 in funding from a combination of angel investors and venture partners. As part of …
Client Win
Contract Platform Juro Bags Skyscanner in Major Client Coup
Travel comparison giant Skyscanner has selected Juro as its contract management/automation provider in a significant client win for the UK-based legal tech pioneer following a successful proof of concept phase …
Legal Bot Regulation
Declare Your Legal Bot! New California Law Demands Bot Transparency
California has just passed into law a new Bill that demands that anyone presenting a bot – which would include legal bots – to the …
Legal Blockchain
UK Takes Another Step Toward Blockchain Property Register with R3
The UK’s national property register, HM Land Registry, is partnering with software company Methods, to utilise R3’s blockchain platform, Corda, for the second phase of …
Legal Tech Growth
Event Write-up: Launch of the Manchester Law & Technology Initiative
The Launch of the Manchester LegalTech Consortium – (…which Is Now to Be Called the ‘Manchester Law & Technology Initiative’.) By Matthew Pennington, founder of …
Legal AI Platformistion
Legal AI Platformisation Continues with Diligen/QRX Data Partnership
Legal AI company Diligen has partnered with data storage company QRX Technology Group in another example of platformisation, i.e. data store/collaboration companies getting together with the AI companies capable of …
The Conversation
O Silo Mio! – LegalTech Silos Are On The Rise, and That’s Bad
How the Blooming LegalTech Landscape is Locking Itself Into New Silos and Why That is Bad By Tom Braegelmann, Lawyer at German law firm, BBL, previously …
Legal Tech Prize
Paris Bar Incubator Calls for Applicants for 2018 Innovation Prize
The Paris Bar Legal Tech Incubator (L’Incubateur du Barreau de Paris), which was the first legal tech incubator in Europe, is seeking new applications for …
AI
Demystifying AI For Lawyers: Supervised Machine Learning
Demystifying Artificial Intelligence For Lawyers: Supervised Machine Learning By David Kleiman, Product Manager at Bloomberg Law For many, artificial intelligence (AI) conjures images of robots taking over …
News Wrap
Legal Tech Popcorn, Feat: ContractPodAi, HSF, OpenLaw + vLex
Legal tech land is popping like a pan of hot corn right now, so here are a few crunchy little stories that you may have …